Poorna Jagannathan Solid in Onyx Collective’s ‘Deli Boys’ Comedy Pilot

Poorna Jagannathan has been solid in “Deli Boys,” Abdullah Saeed’s comedy pilot for the Onyx Collective on Hulu.

The collection will comply with a pair of pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers named Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj Dar (Saagar Shaikh) who lose all the pieces when their convenience-store magnate father abruptly dies. They and are pressured to reckon with their Baba’s secret lifetime of crime as they try and take up his mantle within the underworld. Alfie Fuller additionally stars.

Jagannathan will play Fortunate, Baba’s right-hand girl. She might be very caring or a badass enterprise boss girl, relying on what’s wanted.

Jagannathan is finest identified for starring as Devi’s (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) mom Nalini in “By no means Have I Ever” on Netflix and Nasir’s (Riz Ahmed) mom Safar in “The Evening Of” on HBO. She has additionally performed roles in “Defending Jacob” on Apple TV+, “The Act” and “Ramy” on Hulu and “Huge Little Lies” on HBO. Up subsequent, she’ll seem within the Netflix crime comedy movie “The Out-Legal guidelines” reverse stars together with Pierce Brosnan, Nina Dobrev and Richard Type. Moreover, she’s going to play Aza’s (Isabela Merced) therapist Dr. Singh in “Turtles All of the Manner Down,” HBO Max’s upcoming movie adaptation of the John Inexperienced novel “Turtles All of the Manner Down,” directed by Hannah Marks.

She is repped by Gersh, Untitled and Melissa Fox at Hansen Jacobsen.

Saeed writes “Deli Boys” and govt produces alongside Nisha Ganatra, who serves as a director, in addition to Jenni Konner, Vali Chandrasekaran and Nora Silver. twentieth Tv is the studio.